From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre-Louis Bossart Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] sound: soc: intel: bxt_da7219_max98357a: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in broxton_audio_probe Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 13:57:43 -0500 Message-ID: <482591fb-bf12-2e0a-e0ef-2ae0b4095000@linux.intel.com> References: <1523270781-22627-1-git-send-email-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1523270781-22627-1-git-send-email-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jia-Ju Bai , lgirdwood@gmail.com, broonie@kernel.org, perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com, sathyanarayana.nujella@intel.com, Adam.Thomson.Opensource@diasemi.com Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vinod Koul List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 4/9/18 5:46 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote: > broxton_audio_probe() is never called in atomic context. > This function is only set as ".probe" in "struct platform_driver". > > Despite never getting called from atomic context, > broxton_audio_probe() calls devm_kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC, > which waits busily for allocation. > GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary and can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL, > to avoid busy waiting and improve the possibility of sucessful allocation. [answering for the series] Humm, this is interesting. If indeed we can afford to sleep then the change should be done on ALL 14 boards in sound/soc/intel/boards which follow the same code pattern. If we cannot sleep then then none of these changes should be applied. Liam and Vinod? > > This is found by a static analysis tool named DCNS written by myself. > > Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai > --- > sound/soc/intel/boards/bxt_da7219_max98357a.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/boards/bxt_da7219_max98357a.c b/sound/soc/intel/boards/bxt_da7219_max98357a.c > index ce35ec7..f4361b7 100644 > --- a/sound/soc/intel/boards/bxt_da7219_max98357a.c > +++ b/sound/soc/intel/boards/bxt_da7219_max98357a.c > @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ static int broxton_audio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > { > struct bxt_card_private *ctx; > > - ctx = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*ctx), GFP_ATOMIC); > + ctx = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL); > if (!ctx) > return -ENOMEM; > >